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WELCOME ! Here I'm happy to share my painting and drawing process through the years. I paint and draw "portraits" of what visually capture my interest and with no exception there is light, shadows and water involved.
Contemplation appeared early in my life, and drawing followed naturally to leave a trace of my impressions. Here I'm happy to share my processes and reflections about painting and drawing, a life long exploration...

Mauritius - drawings (2)

This is the evolution or my drawings during two weeks more or less. The first ones are "shy" as there had been a while since I spend time drawing. At the end I feel I could develop different ways of drawing, if I work on it. But I would like to "seperate" them in that case. Or maybe not, perhaps at the end it will be just "my way of drawing and painting",

Here you will find work and reflections about my painting process, which I'm happy to share with others. You can look into the last eight years of work in the "The Archive", here below, or also make a research with a keyword under "Labels". Some posts contains several images, to see click on the post itself.

Please feel free to contact me for any question, or if you wish to purchase or use any of my work.

As I mention further down in this column you can find reproductions of my work for sale on "One Kings Lane's" website. (You can easily get the link by a click on each image in this column.)

PRINTS FOR SALE

Reproductions of my work are for sale on "onekingslane.com". (You can do a research with my name through their browser or click on this image to be linked).

PREVIOUSLY ON One Kings Lane.com

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MINI TUTORIALS

Seen in "Pratique des Arts" (Nr.134)

WATERCOLOR COURSES / COURS D'AQUARELLE

Watercolor courses at "Atelier du Passage", in Paris.

BOOK by Helen Birch, "Drawn from life"

LIVRE de Helen Birch, "Dessin d'après modèle"

WORKS FOR SALE

Works for sale on ExpogalerÍa (clic on image for link)

FOLLOWERS

INSPIRING MASTERS

Horst Janssen

Andrew Wyeth

Bonnard

Joaquin Sorolla

Sargent

Rembrant

Klimt

Schiele

Lucian Freud

Euan Uglow

Avigdor Arikha

Joseph Van Ruyssefelt

Edward Hopper

Van Gogh

Monet

Helene Schjerfbeck

Anders Zorn

Eugène Jansson

Picasso

David Hockney

Antonio Lopez Garcia

Michaël Borremans

Truphémus

Diarmud Kelley

Wendy Artin

Sam Safran

Lars Lerin

Severo Almansa

Pedro Cano

Juan Carlos Cardesin

Carlos San Millan

Eduardo Alvarado

Mònica Subidé

Paco Lafarge

Miguel Coronado

Alberto Romero Gil

Jean Marie Drouet,

James Jean

Wil Freeborn

Kurt Jackson

Irene Cuadrado

Marta Lafuente

Laura Ríos

Israel Herchberg

Signal Tsabari

Susan Jane and

Chelsea James

among others…

My thoughts about drawing coincides with these statements:

"Drawing from observation is immediate. It requires the feeling: intense sensation, vision, velocity and instant execution. It does not admit any subsequent amendments that we would be noticed inevitably...

When a head, an apple, a tree or a piece of bread, beat and subjugate, the hand will follow and communicate through the line or spot, the visual emotion. It is always the revelation of a truth that the subtle viewer will discern without hesitation."

Avigdor ARIKHA

"Always have a book in hand and note in four strokes the objects that strike you, if you do not have time to fully state it. But if you have the opportunity to make a more accurate sketch, study the model with love, consider it and express it under all its forms, so as it stays in your head, embed it there as your property."